I had a climbing lesson the other day and my instructor pushed me to try a route that challenged my ability. It didn’t turn out well, my fear got the better of me….
Performance Improvement
I am usually thinking about how to get more done in less time, to become more efficient. This involves challenging how I spend my time and what I spend it on. After all,…
I rented a tool called a brush hog this week. It was the perfect tool to clear the chest high thorny blackberry bushes covering a plot of land we purchased. In fact, it…
Sometimes my clients see trouble ahead and yet they don’t take action. There can be a variety of reasons why this happens, but it is usually because we get hijacked by our emotions….
If you’ve read my articles over the years, you will know commitment is one of the foundations of strong leadership. Leadership is about generating the commitment in others to want to join you…
In my last post I talked about goals and what a goal is. The better you understand something, the more value you are likely to derive from it. Earlier in my career, I…
What is a goal? On the face of it this is a simple question but like most things, it is not so simple. I’ve written extensively about the qualities of a goal. The…
In last week’s post I explained the risk of focusing on being an efficient leader. Efficiency needs to be focused on the right things. Getting better at the wrong things doesn’t help and…
For most of my career at Intel I focused on being as efficient as possible. This was especially true with how I spent my time, at least that is what I thought. I…
When people face a problem, their common response is to figure out how to do something better to overcome it. In a discussion with some clients recently, they focused on how to use…